I'm looking at the Future of Jobs report from the World Economic Forum. The world is rapidly capturing robots. Out of a billion children who are currently enrolled in primary schools, only 40% will find a job (WB). Most of the knowledge that they are now getting is practically useless.
We are experiencing the fourth industrial revolution, which began at a time when developments in the field of genetics, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, nanotechnology, robotics and 3D printing gained practical impact on everyday life. Very soon in the risk zone will be administrative posts, manufacturing professions and specialties related to data processing.
Guides, taxi drivers, bakers, butchers, models, pharmacists, insurance agents, sellers, accountants, tax collectors and officials - all these professions will be unclaimed during the next 12-15 years. The chance to remain in demand will appear at doctors, psychologists, firemen, policemen and detectives, artists, photographers, social workers and clergymen. In other words - professions that require intuition, empathy and social interaction will be in demand, and the rest, apparently - no. This is the main thing that should now be taught in schools.
Robotics will affect all spheres of human activity, and those who believe that in Ukraine this process will occur 20 years later - is naively mistaken. Over the past decade, the cost of robots has fallen by a third, and in the next 10 years, the price is predicted to fall by another 20-22% (WEF). Once the cost of debugging and launching the robot is cheaper than the annual salary of the profile employee, an irreversible process of replacing people with robots will begin - in order to reduce the cost of production and improve the quality of labor.
Robots will sweep a poorly-organized, inefficient, often resting society and radically change the landscape of the labor market.
This is what the governments of developed countries are saying and are writing about the world's media. The Day of International Workers' Solidarity, on the occasion of which we have another day off, will soon have a completely different meaning.
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